Our dueling theatre critics Jonathan Abarbanel and Kelly Kleiman tackle recent stage offerings, and possibly, each other. This week they discuss About Face’s Loving Repeating.

About Face Theatre’s Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein plays through March 12, 2006, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

Nina Simone: The High Priestess Speaks is playing in an open run at the Black Ensemble Theater in Chicago.

The Joffrey Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet performs through February 26, 2006, at the Auditorium Theater.

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake runs through February 26, 2006, at the Cadillac Palace Theater.